The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-05
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
What the Newspapers Say of Men and
Women of More or Less Fame.

What the Newspapers Say of Men and
Women of More or Less Fame.
Premier Crispi. of Italy, was common
soldier in Garibaldi' GLORIOUS thousand. "
The latest man mentioned in the I'M
trammeled west as a successor to Mr..
Beecher IS Sam" Jones. By the way,
Sam saws he is not divine, = but a
''human.
Christine Nilsson's husband, Senior de
Casa Miranda. is short and stout, and has
round dark eyes and a queer smile. He
has intelligence and charming manners.
They are living handsomely in London,
where the countess gives many pleasant
entertainments. She dresses carelessly
now and in bad taste.
A. Bronson Alcott has kept a journal
ever since he was a boy, and, as he was
born in 1897, and has known intimately
nearly every. man of distinction in New
England from that time to the present,
it ought to be most interesting reading.
This journal fills sixty volumes of neatly
written manuscript, which win be given
to the world after his death. Mr.. Alcott
is still a helpless invalid, and spends most
of his time on a couch asleep or looking
over his books. The Argonaut.
DIR. J. Haney Lowell, of Philadelphia,
is a pronounced vegetarian, believing that
eating meat IS the cause of untold evils.
He even thinks that vegetarianism is the
best remedy for intemperance. His theory
! is that flesh eating men have an abnormal
taste for drink, and that if men will only
| confine themselves to vegetable food the
desire for drink will be antagonized.
mo man, l. says, who eats a pound
| of macaroni daily win become a drunkard.
What we want is a temperance vegetarian
| restaurant, where young men may be
| banqueted on macaroni, beans and rice. "
The empress of Austria is almost as
| ardent mountaineer as she was a horse
woman, and during her stay at 1schl
went in for a great deal of mountain
| climbing. One day, writes a cable cor
| respondent of The World, she made the
ascent of the Gethfeld, and according to
| her usual custom took with her but
| small posse of attendants. When half
| way up a snow storm came on, and the
| empress and her party were at that mo-
ment going along a narrow path a little
| better than mere ledge. which wound
round the face of the mountain. To adj
| vance was impossible and to return was
| equally dangerous So the empress had
to cling to the face of tho precipice in the
| binding snow storm for the space OF more
than an hour AT the expiration Of that
| time the storm abated and an attempt
| was made to descend. A relief party,
which had been sent up from Ischl, when
| once the position of affairs became known,
finally rescued the imperial party.
Jules Verne, the famous novelist, lives
at Amiens, France, that ancient capital of
| Picardy, which is on the Northern rail-
| way, about ninety miles from Paris.
| Amiens is a charming old city, through
whose narrow streets the river Somme
winds eleven times. Its quaint houses
are covered with tiles; its citadel was
built by Henri " and its cathedral il. the
| Thirteenth century. Verne lives in a
large handsome mansion, surrounded by
well kept grounds, and is actively at
| work, writing two books each year. He
is 80 years of age and was educated for
| the law. His habits are methodical, and
the early morning is his time for work.
He goes to bed at o'clock, and is up so
early that the task of the day is finished
by O'Clock. The novelist is not great
| traveller, as his books would indicate; he
uses large maps and is a close student of
geography. His dates, he says, give him
more trouble than any other part of his
| work.